The patch titled
Subject: mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity.patch
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY skips the check on page alloc whether the
poison pattern was corrupted, suggesting a use-after-free. The motivation
to introduce it in commit 8823b1dbc05f ("mm/page_poison.c: enable
PAGE_POISONING as a separate option") was to simply sanitize freed pages,
optimally together with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO.
These days we have an init_on_free=1 boot option, which makes this use
case of page poisoning redundant. For sanitizing, writing zeroes is
sufficient, there is pretty much no benefit from writing the 0xAA poison
pattern to freed pages, without checking it back on alloc. Thus, remove
this option and suggest init_on_free instead in the main config's help.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201103152237.9853-5-vbabka@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 4 +---
mm/Kconfig.debug | 15 ++++-----------
mm/page_poison.c | 3 ---
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c~mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity
+++ a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -1114,9 +1114,7 @@ static int virtballoon_validate(struct v
* page reporting as it could potentially change the contents
* of our free pages.
*/
- if (!want_init_on_free() &&
- (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY) ||
- !page_poisoning_enabled_static()))
+ if (!want_init_on_free() && !page_poisoning_enabled_static())
__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON);
else if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON))
__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_REPORTING);
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug~mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity
+++ a/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -74,18 +74,11 @@ config PAGE_POISONING
Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
- If unsure, say N
-
-config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
- depends on PAGE_POISONING
- bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
- help
- Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
- poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
- poisoning feature.
+ If you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without
+ checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with
+ "init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this.
- If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
- say N.
+ If unsure, say N
config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
--- a/mm/page_poison.c~mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity
+++ a/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ static void check_poison_mem(unsigned ch
unsigned char *start;
unsigned char *end;
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY))
- return;
-
start = memchr_inv(mem, PAGE_POISON, bytes);
if (!start)
return;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vbabka@xxxxxxx are
mm-slub-use-kmem_cache_debug_flags-in-deactivate_slab.patch
mm-page_alloc-do-not-rely-on-the-order-of-page_poison-and-init_on_alloc-free-parameters.patch
mm-page_poison-use-static-key-more-efficiently.patch
kernel-power-allow-hibernation-with-page_poison-sanity-checking.patch
mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_no_sanity.patch
mm-page_poison-remove-config_page_poisoning_zero.patch
